Personality Disorders Support Group

Personality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are characterized by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and behaviour. Personality disorders are seen by the American Psychiatric Association as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the culture of the individual who exhibits it.

diagnosis

After being diagnosed with BPD for 20 years, and that DX still stood 6 months ago, a new very good psychiatrist as good as the one that gave the BPD dx, took it off.
Said i got PTSD and OCD, but no BPD.........

Hrmm, i still feel like shit,NO therapist has ever able to help me.I just sign on with a new therapist who specilaizes in BPD, so i'm more confused than ever...........

Do i tell the therapists that last week a very good psychiatrist said i do NOT have BPD, or do i go for BPD therapy?

I only have about 5 of the criteria for BPD and always have, arrrghh.....Now i'm more confused.

Some people do not like "labels" and they see diagnosis as them.
But i rather know exactly what is it.

I agree that having a correct diagnosis is helpful because then you feel like you know what demon you are fighting but the more doctors you see the more your diagnosis will change..... Can you ask him why he changed your diagnosis? See if you agree with his reasoning?

It's frustrating to have your diagnosis change.Unfortunately,ity happens almost every time you see a new doctor.At least that is what has happened to me.I've been seen in the mental health field for 15 years and have had it changed many times.Let's see I was major depression Dysthmic disorder,PTSD GAD,avoidant personality disorder,Agoraphobic
Currently I'm DDnos,PTSD,avoidant personality disorder.I think the docs opinions change and also our most prominent symptoms change with time too.The treatment for BPD ,if its DBT,will be helpful to most all diagnosis.

if you've been through DBT before and think it would be helpful then i would say that to the next brilliant shrink. they can study and sympathize but no one knows us like we know us. just my two bits which i'm presently fashioning out of empty hershy kiss wrappers because i'm broke.

I have also been in the mental health world for years and diagnosis change. I do believe however that the treatment for any personality disorder is pretty much the same if the personality disorders are in the same category. , ie. histronic and borderline. I actually did a phone interview with Dr. Linehan, then went to St. Elizabeth's borderline personality disorder clinic in DC for an intake interview and saw another doctor at a psych hospital. The clinic and hospital doctors stated that I was not severe enough to be borderline. Both Dr. Linehan, hospital doctors and St. Elizabeth's staff referred me back to the current therapist at the time who had diagnosed me as a BPD. I might add that this doctor was flat against any type of DBT. You can see how three different therapists (two experts in the BPD field)saw my symptoms as different.

I want to add that the diagnosis changing is causing me alot of stress.It just happened again last nite.A new pdoc took off 2 of my diagnosis and I was very upset by it.It feels so unvalidating.I guess they all have their different opinions but I had to really struggle to feel like I was being heard with the doctors over the last year.They gave me a diagnosis of avoidant personality disorder and dissociative nos disorder.This was validating because I knew I had been heard and believed.Last nite the new doc took them off and put down PTSD...I'm saddened by this and feel like my voice has been silenced once again

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